What is the point of a B Day, does anyone actually use them?

[Lorddenning1]

Does anyone have a B day, in this day and age are they still being used? My parents have one and it just got me thinking, like how does it work, I have never used one before, isn't having a shower easier, can someone explain to me?

I always “use” my birthday .l

I had occasional urinary track infections but after I started throwing a bit of water down there before drying with toilet paper, I’ve never had an infection again, now for years. I come from a country where bidet shower is standard in bathrooms. I feel it’s much more hygienic to sort it out immediately after bowel movement than to leave it till the next shower. I do use toilet paper too but it’s just not good enough on its own.

@jingabellrock

And whoever was waffling on about towels: you don't need a blimmin towel cause you're not soaking wet after. This is your bum we're talking about, and bits too if you want, and you don't need a towel. Just pull up your pants or your knickers.

My bush would need a towelling after 😂

It’s like a cornfield in a horror movie or the dense, curly, spiky vines Maleficent casts in Sleep Beauty. TMI?

Although to towel the front I guess my normal bath towel would be to hand at home and in a place that had Japanese loos I may just have to use the drying function a few times and hope it doesn’t break it!

Ah we’re old school, we just use one of these... I would bloody love a bidet!

They are the perfect size for a cat to sleep in if you put a comfy blanket in. A friend used to do this, so you could sit on the loo and stroke the pussy in the bidet next to you at the same time.

I'll go against the grain and say I find them useful.
I had one installed into a property i was renovating with my then OH.

We had an extremely active sex life, perhaps 5/6 times a day for several years if we could, and a bidet was a godsend!

so you could sit on the loo and stroke the pussy in the bidet next to you at the same time

We had one when we moved in to our current house. After using it to clean the paint brushes when we were young and silly. Then we couldn't get the paint off so we took it out. I mean if you have IBS or are a clean freak, l get it. But not apart from that.

If there are no towels or napkins nearby once you’ve finished on the bidet, pick up the nearest pussy to dry your pussy on.

Cake and presents isn’t it?

A man I worked with said the only thing he used his for was defrosting the turkey at Christmas.

@Silverstripe

I think they’re great.

If you got shit on any other part of your body you wouldn’t just wipe it with paper and be done. You would give it a proper wash. I don’t know why we’re ok with it when it’s buttholes. They’re also good for people with piles, and post pregnancy.

Exactly this! If I had poo on my hand, arm, leg etc I wouldn’t simply swipe a bit of paper over it, I’d wash it with soap and water.

We don’t have a bidet, but each toilet had a hose attached instead.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

The only thing I would say is if your digestive tract is healthy (no constipation etc), when you have a bowel movement there should be very little there to wipe, which is maybe why many of us are fine with just loo roll

Bidets are quite nice and clean though and I can see them coming into fashion for environmental reasons if they dont use too much water

But paper won’t remove the bacteria left behind by a stool. Hence washing your hands with soap, not a dry bit of paper.

I'd rather have one of those hoses connected to the toilet so you can hose everything down. When I was in Asia they had them everywhere. Would you wipe poo off your shoe with dry toilet paper? Just thinking about that!

Hose? Karcher pressure wash is what we have in the toilet. No need for paper, no need to wipe - just blast the lot way. 😊

There are many cultures and nationalities which frown on the British for not using one to clean adequately. The dry wipe is not the same.

I've used one, would love one at home if I had the space.

Makes a great bath for a miniature Yorkshire terrior

@LaMarschallin his name wasn't Dave was it and married to someone called Denise

Gutted that we refurbished our loos at home before we visited Japan.

Japanese toilets are amazing (a cross between a loo, a bidet and a sex toy)!

Very tempted to replace the downstairs one with a Japanese washlet but can't justify the cost as the pan has only just been replaced.

Lorddenning1

No - he lived by himself (perhaps that's how he knew his bidet was safe to use for said turkey defrosting).
Don't tell me there's someone else who does it?!

Yeah this guy

Yeah this guy

Ah. I see.
No, not him (and completely missed the allusion ).

@VienneseWhirligig

The Shangri-La restaurant at the Shard has Japanese toilets. I had about 6 wees when we went for afternoon tea just because I was so excited at being able to sit on the loo, charging my phone, washing my bum and looking out over London from a great height (one way plate glass cubicle)

(one way plate glass cubicle)

Aye, that's what they told you

Love a bidet and had one installed at my last house. It completely solved my recurring cystitis. The builder who put it in asked me what it was for and I was so embarrassed I mumbled something about washing and I think he might have thought it was for small people to wash their hands in.

Our new house has no bidet, but there is a hose on one of the loos - but the water is freezing! Am getting a bidet again as soon as funds allow for a bathroom refit.